A simple question!
What can you do? to make Sheffield a better place?
How challenging is this thread?

A good way would be if we all took our litter home instead of dropping it in which ever place we happen to be, this includes the chewing gum that is strewn over every pavement in the city.

Good one, owldad!

Be polite on buses - if you're a bloke sitting on a bus do the old fashioned thing and stand for an older person, a woman or anyone with a truckload of bags. Go on, someone accuse me of being patriarchal and patronising...;-)

Remember your pleases and thank yous.

Joe

If you see street lights out, report them. Abandonded cars, ditto. Join community groups and clean parks, canals or just the street outside your door.

Help run youth clubs, offer your skills (all of us are IT literate) to voluntary groups.

And look to be polite and friendly.
And if you have frail or old people as your neighbour call around now and then to make sure they are alright.
And if you are a dog owner please clean up after your pet.

Good one, Max.

Volunteer for a community group or charity and offer to do soem of the behind the scenes work that is often needed but doesn't get done - the paperwork, filing, etc.

If you've kids in school, get involved with the PTA, become a parent governor, take an interest in the work they do in school.

Joe

How about making a "Constitution of Sheffield"

Parents can get involved with their childrens school. Staying for just half an hour in a morning to listen to the kids read or help with their spellings makes such a difference. I stay as often as I can and really enjoy it.

I agree with getting involved with your local community. I have always done voluntary community based work and it eventually lead me to get a paid job in as a Community Development Worker. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much community action going on around here and it is something I miss a lot. It's a good way to give something back to the community and meet lots of new people too.

Originally posted by royjames
And look to be polite and friendly.
And if you have frail or old people as your neighbour call around now and then to make sure they are alright.


Even to ethnic minorities, roy? Not like you, is it?

Be excellent to each other!

Originally posted by owdlad
A good way would be if we all took our litter home instead of dropping it in which ever place we happen to be, this includes the chewing gum that is strewn over every pavement in the city.

I agree it would help if chewing gum came in an individual wrapper like it use to, so you put the wrapper in your pocket until you have finished with your spoggy and then wrap it up to put in a bin. Even wrapping it would stop it sticking to the pavement.

How many people say anything to others that drop litter? - especially some of the kids/youths about, no we don't because we know what would happen. Parents should teach their kids not to do it, i was, and my son has been too.

Treating/helping/arresting/even as harsh as commiting the abusive/drunk street people there are around our city. Making it a safer place for everyone else to be.

Care - it is a simple thing. Care about your friends and family, that they are protected and treated right, but also 'care' that they treat others as you treat them - with respect.
Care about your homes and those of people around you, the streets you walk on and the buildings you visit for whatever purpose.

Take responsibility for your actions and of the mentally challenged around you - like litter - don't just ignore the lout dropping his fag packet, give him an earful. Same goes for kids dropping sweet wrappers, give them an earful and if their parents are stood there letting them do it, embarrass them into sorting it out. I guess this one would apply to general nuisances and vandalism....don't just let someone else do it...what if you are the someone else?

English philosopher Edmund Burke said, ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.’

If we all vowed to do just one thing everyday to help the city..be it pick up one peice of litter or help one person...imagine if we all did it...it would surely make a difference. It can be as trivial as you like but you have to do something EVERYDAY. For example today an old woman crossed the road where she shouldn't have in front of me...normally I'd have beeped the horn and swore but today I waved her across and gave her time and smiled at her...she smiled back and waved thank you. 2 things have happened there. I feel so much better and happier in my day as does the old dear crossing the road thus making a difference to both our days...it doesn't take much. I await my Nobel Peace Prize. One more thing..it has to be unconditional...no reward expected..no personal gain...a totally selfless act

bring in a curfew for 16 yr olds and younger - say 2200 hours

next time you are somewhere else and someone starts on about how sheffield is a dump etc with their pre dated views, stand up for your city and prove them wrong. encourage more pride in sheff

- Turn off unused electrical appliances, especially lights when a room is empty
- If you see someone dropping litter, 'kindly' pick it up and return it to them
- Take showers not baths (cleaner too)
- Don't leave TVs on standby - turn off completely if not in use
- Be polite to people

Originally posted by t020
- - If you see someone dropping litter, 'kindly' pick it up and return it to them


A couple of years ago I saw someone drop an empty fag packet and I went over and picked it up and said "Excuse me, I think you dropped something". He looked really embarrased because everyone was staring at him. When I looked back, he was putting it in a bin!

It warms my heart to see all the splendid reponses to the question HOW CAN YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
You all make me feel proud to be an ex Sheffielder and it certainly proves that there are caring, thinking people out there.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I supposet the question is now - will you make a difference....now we have a log of simple ways to help..will any of you actually do it?

Moon Maiden

Hi Moon Maiden,

Absolutely agree! Fortunately, I do quite a few of them already! But I'm afraid I'll remain a bath bunny rather than a shower taker - hard to read in the shower!

The next step is to proslytise!

Joe

bulldoze the Manor, Wensley Estate, Southy Green, and Parsons Cross...get rid of all the scum who live there and build it all again..with new nice people

Originally posted by Miss_60
bulldoze the Manor, Wensley Estate, Southy Green, and Parsons Cross...get rid of all the scum who live there and build it all again..with new nice people

You have that sort of personal power?

Can I be your friend? ;-)

Joe

Oust the Labour Council.

Cut the social security provisions so our taxes can be spent on infrastructure and aesthetic enhancements for everyone to enjoy, not just thoes on supported incomes. Encourage work by discouraging reliance on benefits.

Encourage businesses to locate in Sheffield by offering favourable rents and tax incentives thus stimulating the labour market as apposed to hiking business tax which was Labour policy in Sheffield for years.

Spend the budget encouraging inward / indegenous investment to stimulate economic growth rather than support 25% of the population through benefits.

Everyone should be encourage to contribute to Sheffields economy and society, rather than rely on it to support them.

Originally posted by dylan_61
Oust the Labour Council.

Cut the social security provisions so our taxes can be spent on infrastructure and aesthetic enhancements for everyone to enjoy, not just thoes on supported incomes. Encourage work by discouraging reliance on benefits.

Encourage businesses to locate in Sheffield by offering favourable rents and tax incentives thus stimulating the labour market as apposed to hiking business tax which was Labour policy in Sheffield for years.

Spend the budget encouraging inward / indegenous investment to stimulate economic growth rather than support 25% of the population through benefits.

Everyone should be encourage to contribute to Sheffields economy and society, rather than rely on it to support them.

And there was me thinking that picking up litter outside my house would make a difference.

Note to self: think big.;)

Originally posted by max
And there was me thinking that picking up litter outside my house would make a difference.

Note to self: think big.;)

All it takes is putting an X in another box

Originally posted by dylan_61
All it takes is putting an X in another box

Do that and you'll end up with more speed bumps around Caterknowle. Is that what you really want?

Originally posted by Miss_60
bulldoze the Manor, Wensley Estate, Southy Green, and Parsons Cross...get rid of all the scum who live there and build it all again..with new nice people Its that type of snobby, ignorant attitiude which doesn't make the slightest difference to anything. :loopy:

Originally posted by bulldog D
A simple question!
What can you do? to make Sheffield a better place?
How challenging is this thread?

Learn to drive a bus, and quick.

Originally posted by max
Do that and you'll end up with more speed bumps around Caterknowle. Is that what you really want?

It would be physically impossible to increase the density of speed bumps on Carterknowle Road.

The Torys were actually in favour of reducing speed bump density

Originally posted by wibbles
Its that type of snobby, ignorant attitiude which doesn't make the slightest difference to anything. :loopy:

Maybe not that harsh, but a round of gentrification never hurt anyone.

From the small to the grand scales of thought!
but who has put any of their ideas into action yet?
and made that difference!
Don't be ashamed to own up if you haven't, perhaps we all make a difference by just spending time and thought on this forum.

There are loads of stuff residents of Sheffield can do we just need to get off our back sides and get stuck in...